Corticium THELEPHORACE.E 41 1 



1836. C. populinum Fr. (from the habitat, poplar, populus). 



Soft, tuberculiform, soon confluent and effused, at length involute. 

 Hym. uneven, ferruginous-cinerous, whitish-tomentose beneath. 

 Poplar. 



1837. C. Lyeii Cooke ex Mass. (from the usual habitat, Lycium) a. 

 Effused, thin. Hym. papillose, lilac or white-salmon ; marg. 



free, somewhat byssoid, pallid. 

 Lycium, lilac, f-3 in. 



1837a. C. seriale Fr. (from the habit, growing in long, gregarious 

 rows ; series, a row). 

 Elongato-effused, adfixed to matrix, thin. Hym. rimose, thin, papil- 

 lose, dull ochreous, white pruinose ; marg. fibrillose whitish. 

 Wood, pine. 



1838. C. ealeeum Fr. (from the chalk-white colour ; calx, lime) a b c. 

 Broadly effused, agglutinate, waxy. Hym. even, smooth, rigid, 



cracking, white or pallid, becoming pale dull salmon ; marg. 



finely pulverulent, white. 



Wood, pine, blackberry, lilac, willow, lime, hornbeam, birch, Myrica, 

 leaves, earth. May- Aug. 5-5 in. This is C. cretaceum Pers. 



1839. C. serum Fr. (from its time of growth — winter; series, late, 



growing in winter) a b c. 



Broadly effused, incrusting, fleshy to thin. Hym. smooth to 



pruinose, crowded with papillae, splitting into flocci, white ; 



marg. fading in a mucedinous manner into the wooden matrix, 



sometimes forming finely pulverulent cloud-like growths. 



Trunks, birch, alder, hornbeam. 5-32 m - This is Hypochnits Sacc, 

 Lycomyces Karst. Often resembling spluttered drops, as from a wax candle. 



1840. C. seutellare B. &: C. (from the salver-like form it sometimes 



assumes ; scutella, a salver) a c. 



Broadly effused. Hym. cracking into minute areolae, with inter- 

 mediate finely-folded rugose patches, whitish, becoming warm 

 biscuit-buff; marg. forming thin cloud-like growths in mature 

 examples. 



Rotting logs, furze, oak, cedar, dead herbaceous stems. 6 in. 



1841. C. fcetidum B. & Br. (from its fetid odour) a. 



Effused. Hym. cracking, white to ivory and ochreous, clouded 



pale grey and faint sienna. 

 Sawdust. 4-2J in. 



1842. C. laeteum Fr. (from the milk-white colour ; lac, milk) a b c. 

 Broadly effused, submembranous. Hym. waxy, cracking and 



parting when dry, white to pale biscuit with mid. darker, some- 

 times pale straw or pale orange-colour ; sub. and marg. loosely 

 fibrillose, often fringed with long branching strands of white 

 mycelium, sometimes with pilose or farinose cloud-like growths. 



Trunks and beneath bark, chestnut, beech, holly, lime ; frequent. Nov.- 

 Feb. 6 in. 



